Aboriginal-European Relations During the Great Age of North Polar Exploration

Dick, Lyle

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“…In this context, the work of historian Lyle Dick (1995Dick ( , 2001Dick ( , 2002) is most pertinent. Dick has written extensively about Peary's interactions with the Inughuit, revealing them to be problematic in many ways; Peary was racist, sexist, authoritarian, and paternalistic.…”

Section: Peary and The Inughuitmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Peary strongly believed that female companionship was important to a man's well-being in the North (Peary, 1900 -02a, b;Dick, 2001Dick, :382, 2002. Thus he condoned and even encouraged relationships between Inughuit women and American men.…”

Section: Peary and The Inughuitmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At Fort Conger, Peary's "instrumentalist" (Dick 2002:81) attitude toward women in general, and sexual relationships in particular, sometimes led to disturbing if short-lived relationships such as that between Dedrick and Saune in the late summer of 1900 (USNA, 1900 -02a;Dick, 2002:81). But it would be a mistake to assume that all of the relationships between American men and Inuhguit women were necessarily coercive or one-sided.…”

Section: Peary and The Inughuitmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Piecing together the events of this expedition is difficult, for Peary's notes for these years are piecemeal-cobbled together in various notebooks and papers, quite unlike other journals. Some facts are well known-that he lost most of his toes to frostbite, for example, although the exact number and circumstances have been mythologized (Dick, 1995)-but the focus has largely been on his sledging expeditions (Peary, 1907). Here I am concerned not with these major activities, but with the events of a few days in mid-January 1901, following the death of an Inughuit woman, Elatu.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Having had no significant successes-and indeed, a series of setbacks-he published very little about it, and few scholars have examined it in any detail (Peary, 1907;Dick, 2001). Piecing together the events of this expedition is difficult, for Peary's notes for these years are piecemeal-cobbled together in various notebooks and papers, quite unlike other journals.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Elatu’s Funeral: A Glimpse of Inughuit-American Relations on Robert E. Peary’s 1898–1902 Expedition

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ABSTRACT. In January 1901, American explorer Robert E. Peary was an active participant in an Inughuit funeral following the death of a young woman at his base at Fort Conger, Ellesmere Island. Peary's unpublished account of the funeral is the most detailed description of an Inughuit funeral before the introduction of Christianity and agrees in most details with other accounts of funerals from the region. Additionally, along with Peary's and Dr. T.S. Dedrick's journal entries from that time, the funeral and the circumstances surrounding it provide insight into the complex relationships between Peary, his American companions, Dedrick and Matthew Henson, and the Inughuit men and women who overwintered with them at Fort Conger.

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Section: Peary and The Inughuitmentioning

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Alnayah’s People: Archival Photographs from West Greenland, 1908–1909

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Colonial imagery of ‘Arctic hysteria’ and its resignification in Pia Arke’s work of counter-memory

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2023

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The figure of the ‘Arctic hysteric’ emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the discourses of polar explorations and Arctic colonisation as part of photographic and narrative archive of Westerners’ encounter with Greenlandic populations. This racialised and gendered trope made a mark on the European collective memory of Arctic explorations, solidifying an image of native Greenlanders as infantile, frail and in need of protection from the deleterious effects of civilisation. As such, post-colonial scholars have suggested that ‘Arctic hysteria’ cannot be regarded as a solely psychological diagnostic, but needs to be historicised in the context of colonisation and the social disruptions and hardship it brought about for the Inuit. This article, first, undertakes an analysis of the photographic figurations of ‘Arctic hysteria’ to investigate their place in the collective memories of polar explorations, including erasing the role of Indigenous people in these explorations, and, more broadly, construing imaginary geography of the Arctic as an uninhabited and empty place, a canvas for colonial projections, rather than a native homeland. Next, it focuses on artistic resignifications of ‘Arctic hysteria’ in the work of Greenlandic-Danish artist, Pia Arke, and argues that these resignifications are an example of a decolonial project of counter-memory of the Arctic, which is based on a refusal of regarding colonisation as past. Tracing coloniality and its effects in the domains of the body, affect and intimacy, Arke explores the possibilities of creating a shared and relational Arctic memory.

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Aboriginal-European Relations During the Great Age of North Polar Exploration

Abstract: Between 1850 and 1920,

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Elatu’s Funeral: A Glimpse of Inughuit-American Relations on Robert E. Peary’s 1898–1902 Expedition

Elatu’s Funeral: A Glimpse of Inughuit-American Relations on Robert E. Peary’s 1898–1902 Expedition

Alnayah’s People: Archival Photographs from West Greenland, 1908–1909

Colonial imagery of ‘Arctic hysteria’ and its resignification in Pia Arke’s work of counter-memory

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